Abstract
Study design:
One cross-sectional study.
Objectives:
To examine the extent to which a sample of adults with spinal cord injury (SCI) meet the SCI-specific physical activity guidelines and to identify potential demographic, injury and motivational characteristics related to participation.
Setting:
Quebec, Canada.
Methods:
A sample of 73 adults from the province of Quebec, Canada living with SCI completed the Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Spinal Cord Injury to report their current frequency (sessions per week) and duration (minutes per session) in aerobic and resistance physical activity.
Results:
Results showed that 12% of participants in this sample met the guidelines and as many as 44% reported 0 min of physical activity. Only the participants’ mode of mobility and autonomous motivation for physical activity emerged as a marginal correlate of the likelihood of meeting the physical activity guidelines.
Conclusion:
Overall, physical activity participation rates among adults in this sample living with SCI remain quite low. Given the benefits of physical activity for adults with SCI, physical activity promotion efforts are needed.
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We thank Anne-Marie Belley, Frédéric Dumont, Samantha Jeske, Isabelle Cummings and Celina Shirazipour for their help with data collection, as well as Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos for her comments on the mansucript. These studies were funded through COM-QOL, a collaboration funded through the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF) and the Provincial Rehabilitation Research Network (REPAR) Ontario/Quebec Inter-Provincial Partnership grant program; F Routhier and S Sweet are Research Scholars (Junior 1) through the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Santé (FRSQ); and A Latimer-Cheung is funded through the CIHR Canada Research Chair program. Although this study was supported through a number of funding sources, none of the seven authors have any conflict of interest to declare.
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Rocchi, M., Routhier, F., Latimer-Cheung, A. et al. Are adults with spinal cord injury meeting the spinal cord injury-specific physical activity guidelines? A look at a sample from a Canadian province. Spinal Cord 55, 454–459 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2016.181
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